She moved toward him in the specific way she moved when she had resolved an internal argument and was done with the conversation about it. She straightened his collar, which did not need straightening, with the particular possessiveness of someone who could not make a broader claim and was therefore making this small precise one.
Something in the gesture, small and habitual, had the quality of something she had been looking forward to doing since she arrived and was now doing because she was no longer in the waiting state and was allowed to.
"I missed you," she said, and it came out with the flat directness she used when she had given up on managing something and was simply saying it.
"I know," Rex said. "And you don't need to say it because a succubus like you..."
"...always horny."
"That's... not a sufficient response," she said. "But yes... I do am horny for you."
"I know that too," Rex said. "But now is not the right time because... I'm still a little disappoint at you."
